RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water – to find one of his group was missing. He informed the lifeguards, who used binoculars to spot the 13-year-old boy just about to drift out of sight. One lifeguard kept an eye on the child’s position, while another went and rescued him on a rescue watercraft. The boy had swallowed some water and was in shock, but otherwise fine.